Online Friends - What are you opinions on Steve "The Persian Surgeon" Sarkisian as a OC?

He is gonna be great until early October when he starts looking around at potential openings.

Hung over in pic 3, drunk in pic 5. But that's not bad out of 8 pictures.

Average drunk. All those 5*s make him look better than he is, like it did at USC, and like it does Saban. If it ever comes down to relying heavily on the x's and o's his team will look lost.

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Average drunk

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So Pat Dye.

Willy we put 29 on that defense with Mike Locksley.
Sark will have a field day with this offense.

I'm not going to judge him. He was a fine QB coach here @USC 2001 to 2003. He did a fine job.

However, after his return to USC in 2014, trouble began. I don't know if he's conquered his bad habits or not, but here's what happened while he was at USC.

He may have straightened up and gotten things right in his life. I'm sure Alabama's checked everything out and given the green light for good reason.

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Sarkisian dealt with some controversy before his first game as head coach at USC, when defensive captain Josh Shaw told the team he suffered two high ankle sprains when he jumped from a balcony to save his drowning cousin. After numerous calls questioning the authenticity of the story, Shaw admitted he lied to the athletic department. Sarkisian suspended Shaw indefinitely.

On September 8, 2014, Sarkisian and USC athletic director Pat Haden were reprimanded by Pac-12 Conference commissioner Larry Scott for attempting "to influence the officiating, and ultimately the outcome of a contest" during the September 6 game with Stanford. Haden was fined $25,000.

On October 11, 2015, Haden announced Sarkisian would take an indefinite leave of absence. Haden contacted Sarkisian after he learned that Sarkisian had not shown up to a scheduled practice on October 11, 2015. During his conversation with Sarkisian, Haden said he became aware that Sarkisian was "not healthy" and asked Sarkisian to take an indefinite leave of absence. Offensive coordinator Clay Helton would serve as interim head coach in Sarkisian's absence.

ESPN later reported that Sarkisian came to a pre-practice meeting, only to have his assistants tell him to go home when he appeared to be intoxicated. Scott Wolf, the USC beat writer for the Los Angeles Daily News, reported on Twitter that several players smelled alcohol on Sarkisian's breath.

On October 12, 2015, Haden announced that Sarkisian had been fired and named Helton as interim head coach for the remainder of the season (though the "interim" tag was removed after the season). He subsequently revealed that he had tried to call Sarkisian to notify him personally, but by then Sarkisian was on his way to an out-of-state rehab facility and could not be reached.

According to ESPN, Haden had placed Sarkisian on a zero-tolerance policy regarding alcohol use after Sarkisian claimed to have mixed alcohol with medication, despite the fact that he appeared simply to have drunk far too heavily before giving a drunken and profanity-laced speech at a booster club event (Sarkisian apologized after the incident before the 2015 season began). The apparent intoxication at practice would have been grounds for termination.

However, multiple reports said that Sarkisian's assistants believed he was drunk during a game against Arizona State.

Hours before Sarkisian's firing, the Los Angeles Times reported that Sarkisian had been involved in numerous alcohol-related incidents while at the University of Washington. Haden admitted that he hadn't done a public-records check on Sarkisian prior to hiring him.

Sarkisian filed a $30 million wrongful termination lawsuit against USC, but later agreed to move it to private arbitration. He eventually lost the suit, but would not appeal, stating that he would respect the result and move on.

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It loses the intended purpose when you bold the entire fricking thing.

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I disagree.

He might.

But you have to score to make that matter.

Stingley and the D will be scoring...